The way a play looks on stage is as important as how it is written. For this reason, Shakespeare includes a lot of stage directions and hints in the wording of the play as to how the witches look and act. For instance, in Act 1 scene 1, the stage directions ask for “Thunder and lightning” when the witches enter. This would immediately associate them with evil, because in Shakespeare’s time, witches were often blamed for bad weather, as it ruined harvests. Pathetic fallacy also allowed Shakespeare to communicate to his audience through his stage directions as well as his words creating a atmosphere of tension and fear.
Macbeth's flaw is clearly his ambition because he says so himself almost immediately after hearing the witches' prophecy. As he is travelling down the path of his downfall, his disturbances are clearer because his ambition gets in the way. The act that Macbeth committed was called regicide in Shakespearean times and was seen as an act against God natural order. Shakespeare revolves the play around regicide because the king at that time James I was a victim of this and he also was very interested in witchcraft which is why Shakespeare used the three witches in this play. Some might say that Macbeth is certainly a play 'fit for a king'.
The truth is that many of these decisions that Macbeth makes or follows is based on what the witches told him. One example of this is when Lady Macbeth convinces him to kill Duncan in order to become king. She specifically says, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature / … / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, / and chastise with the valor of my tongue” (1.5.16-17, 27-28). In this quote Lady Macbeth is thinking about the witches prophecy and how she can make it come true.
We are unaware of the witches plans regarding Macbeth but it is clear that they are planning to meet him to unleash evil in the play at that is what witches do. King James was particularly interested in Witches and even wrote a book on it. Shakespeare opens Macbeth with a scene that introduces the witches
They were so frightened that they were going to be seen as witches and doing witchcraft that they sold out their neighbors in order to protect their names. In the book the town was very religious that the fear of any one being witches took over the town. Fear played a huge part in the town’s decisions they made. In the book “The Crucible”, the characters allowed their fear of witches and witchcraft made them become dishonest. In ‘The Crucible’ Proctor committed adultery with Abigail, Abigail ended up falling in love with Proctor so much that she claimed Proctor’s wife of doing witchcraft in order to be with him.
After Macbeth when to go see the Witches for them to tell him his future from the apparitions, it showed Macbeth’s downfall. In the book Macbeth, the Three Witches were the reason why the reason for the climax. None of the characters in the book could trust the “supernatural.” Without their manipulation into telling Macbeth he could be King, there wouldn’t have been anything to look forward too. Although the Witches weren’t all evil, they were just controlled by the evil
When Macbeth was on the throne, he became scared that someone is trying to put him down. That is when Macbeth went to the witches again. There he received the other apparitions, which made him feel invincible. This false security finally destroyed him. This shows how the witches influence on Macbeth shaped the
Evan Schweikhart Ms. Linda English 10H 7 November 2014 Macbeth as an Appalling Character in Macbeth In the beginning of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we see the main character Macbeth as a very trustworthy and noble person. However, throughout the play his character is altered by the influences of many people. Although these people have an influence on Macbeth, he is accountable for his own fate. The influence on the witches’ prophecies, the influence of Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth’s motivations, are the main reasons that lead to not only his disastrous end, but the end of many other characters as well. The witches are the ones to blame for placing the idea that Macbeth would eventually become the king of Scotland in his head.
Leo Grazhdankin Ms.Hook hour 1 Macbeth Analysis False prophecies lead to death and destruction In the play, "Macbeth," I believe that the witches actually play a bigger part than they really have. Simply because they start to influence Macbeth’s decisions the witches were trying to create anarchy by foretelling Macbeth’s future so he act upon it. They pretty much planted everything evil into Macbeth's head which just kept growing and growing until it just started to dominate his whole mind. He did not need to kill King Duncan or any of the other victims. But pretty much after he murdered Duncan, Macbeth just went crazy.
‘What beast was it then, that made you break this enterprise to me!’ Who bears the most responsibility for the tragedies in Macbeth? In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, it is ultimately Macbeth himself that bears the most responsibility for the tragedies that occur, including his own eventual downfall. While a combination of supernatural, external and internal influences have a impact on his decisions, it is essentially Macbeth’s own choices, his transformation of character and his fundamental human nature that result in the consequences that occur. The witches and their supernatural prophecies are the first major influence on Macbeth's actions, but their influence is only that of suggestion and their power is limited. The witches’ ‘fantastical’ prophecies don’t state when or how the prophecy will occur, their meaning depending entirely upon the